How to win the jungle race as Vi against Brand · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Vi's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Brand.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Vi Favoured | Vault Breaker charge poke plus the Blast Shield wins the first short trade. Brand can make it awkward — the E-Q ablaze stun rotation removes half your HP in a single combo — but not before either of you has a second camp down. Trade, then walk away with a camp and a chunk of their health bar. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Vi Favoured | Denting Blows shred starts beating slower kits in extended exchanges. The margin is thin: ablaze combo poke chunks half a health bar through a wall, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Spread off camp monsters so Conflagration can't bounce, and flinch the Q stun line. |
| Level 3 Route | Vi Favoured | The full charge-engage with W shred is a clean, honest duel you slightly favor. The full E-Q stun rotation is their burst window before sustain kits stabilize, so this is an edge and not a blowout — take the level-3 river fight only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Vi Favoured — Take Duels | Through levels 4-5 you remain the stronger duelist — keep taking short, decisive trades vs Brand, but only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Cease and Desist Favoured | Cease and Desist is point-click lockdown — your engage can no longer be juked. Brand's six is not empty — Pyroclasm bounces melt any fight you take near teammates. Take the duel from even health rather than from behind, and split off your allies when it is up — the bounce needs a second body. |
| First Item Spike | Sundered Sky Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive damage, health, and sustain multiplier that completely overpowers traditional brawlers or isolated targets. Brand's first item makes the Sear-into-Conflagration rotation a full health bar on a squishy, with no auto-attacks needed. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Brand Outscales | Every minute past 25 tilts toward Brand — he deletes a clumped fight with a Pyroclasm bounce and needs no auto-attacks to do it. Force your win condition early or watch it slip away slowly. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp utilizing your E resets to maximize early clear speed. Brand clears with Pillar of Flame and Conflagration and is healthy at three, but the clear costs him most of his mana.
Ranked by the race windows in Vi's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Vi vs Brand report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Vi's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows — Vi holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Vi's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows, so Brand is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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